Dr Michael Hurd

Congress and the Bush administration are looking for ways to reverse President Clinton’s barrage of executive orders from his final months of office. The former president, for example, arbitrarily designated millions of acres of private lands as public property,...

Q: What is the difference between what is “immoral” and what is “criminal”? Isn’t something criminal, so long as it’s objectively judged, also immoral? A: If something is rationally judged criminal, then by definition it’s...

President Bush has dictated that airline employees may not go on strike for at least two months, and maybe not at all. People like me, who have travel plans next month, should be relieved. Right? Wrong. Why the ingratitude? As much as I want to reach my destination...

Q: How would you correct the problem of education in this country if you had complete control of the system? A: I would not seek “complete control of the system.” Nor do I — or anyone else (be it George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, the NEA, or whomever)...

read a bumpersticker today which said: “It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.” This expression misses a crucial point. Our technology is in fact a consequence of our humanity. Technology comes about only because of...

Many say that the recent presidential election debacle verged on a constitutional crisis. Looking back at last year’s events, let’s apply some perspective. Take a moment and examine what the real crisis is. Americans are forced to pay for an ever-expanding...

You often hear the phrase “control freak” used in a negative sense. I have even used it myself to describe authoritarian personalities. Authoritarian personalities are people who place a desire to be “right” (that is, seen as right) above the...

The federal surplus for the close of fiscal year 2000 was nearly double the surplus for the prior year. This is a problem! A massive, growing federal surplus is a signal that the government is taking too much of our money. Back in the days of the federal deficit, we...

Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged wrote, “When people need help, the best of them (those who need it through no fault of their own) often prefer to starve rather than accept assistance — while the worst of them (the professional parasites) run riot...

It used to be a raging debate in psychology: Are human beings primarily determined by physiology — or by other factors such as environment, family, thinking habits, etc.? Today, such a debate is nearly non-existent. Instead of looking for the role of...

Q: There’s a new corporate term in use lately — “emotional intelligence.” People are even being tested for their “emotional intelligence” levels. Is there any value in this? A: The very concept of “emotional...

Never ask your spouse or partner to make a sacrifice for you. If you really love someone, then you don’t wish to control them. It’s not that you merely won’t ask them to do something they don’t want to do. We’re not just talking about...

In recent years, the Democratic Party has moved to the right. In most respects this has been phony P.R., of course, such as Clinton’s proclamation that “The Era of Big Government Is Over” — with his actions (from the Hillary health plan of 1994...

Why is race such an issue to people? Or is it mainly an issue for members of the media? When I first heard that the Democratic vice-presidential nominee would be Joseph Lieberman, I did not think at all about his race or religion. My mind immediately went to his ideas...